3-028-723 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Plan of Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, 1870. 'The plan we have engraved, from one drawn by Mr. Christopher Foster, Clerk of the Works, shows the exact position of most of the graves and monuments in this part of the church...In the plan, which represents a part of the south transept, its southern extremity, terminated by the door of St. Faith's chapel,...the real tombs, or graves, in which the persons named actually lie buried, are distinguished from the honorary monuments of persons interred elsewhere. The former are marked by perpendicular shading, the latter by a shading of dotted horizontal lines. It will at once be perceived that the grave of Dickens is adjacent to those of Handel, Sheridan, and Cumberland, the dramatist; whose names occupy, with those of Henderson, the actor, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, and General Sir A. Campbell, the eight flat tombstones in front of the door leading to St. Faith's Chapel...The graves of Dickens and Cumberland...lie immediately opposite the well-known cenotaph of Shakspeare, which stands against the wall, with the monuments of Nicholas Rowe, James Thomson, Matthew Prior, Southey, and Thomas Campbell; these confronting those of Addison, Mackenzie, and Handel, and the bust of Thackeray'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.